This is an embarrassing post. Some days are there to simply remind you that you don’t really know what you are doing. I spent two days trying to track down why my networking scripts were not working when I ran them in the editor. Turns out that the editor makes it’s own internal network stack when running a project which does not connect to the normal ethernet ports on your machine.

Top Tip ! Build you project and run it natively if you are using TCP/IP connections ! Don’t try and run it in the editor (not even for quick checks or small simple projects) it simply won’t work.

The really nice thing is after I got it all working I built a touch screen controller for Android phones that can be used as input in a Unity game.

The code is in the repo: https://github.com/zuluonezero/AndroidTouchController